1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,320 Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of home 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: on KFI. You can hear them every weekend six to 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: eight on Saturdays, nine to noon on Sunday, it's our house, Whisper, 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, good morning and happy new Year. Happy New 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 1: Year to you, Amy, and happy birthday to you almost 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: almost Sunday Sunday. You know what, when we get when 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: you get to be a certain age like I am, 8 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: you get to claim the whole month. So I call 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: it Amuary. We can call it Deanuary for. 10 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 2: You, all right, celebrate the whole month long works for me. Okay. 11 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: So in the new year, some people are saying I 12 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: resolve to declutter. 13 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 2: I resolve to lose weight. 14 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: But your resolution sounds fun and yours is you resolve 15 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 1: to redesign exactly exactly. 16 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 2: I love that. So how do we get started with this? 17 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 3: Well, you know, we started a series this last weekend 18 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 3: that we're going to be continuing throughout the year, not 19 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 3: you know, not you know, every Sunday, but we're going 20 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 3: to be revisiting it. And that is, you know, how 21 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 3: to actually design like a house. Whisper. I get a 22 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 3: lot of questions about like what is this whole whispering thing. Anyway, 23 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 3: what are you trying to figure out? And you know, 24 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 3: we've actually put a lot of thought into it this 25 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 3: last year and said, you know what, we need to 26 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 3: share a little bit more directly those principles because you know, 27 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 3: our show is not just about you know, giving people fish, 28 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 3: it's about teaching them to fish and really taking agency 29 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 3: over your own home. And one of the things that 30 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 3: we've talked about again and again, and that I revisited 31 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 3: Sunday and I'm going to revisiting again soon is really 32 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 3: seeing your home, seeing it and taking the time, slowing 33 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 3: down to see your home. If you're planning on, if 34 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 3: you're wanting to, if you're kind of jonesing to, like 35 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 3: I need to make some changes around here, don't just 36 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 3: rush off to buy new appliances or start looking at 37 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 3: fixtures or materials. As fun as that may be or 38 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 3: as attempting as that may be, the fact of the 39 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 3: matter is the real keys to transformation is to sit 40 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 3: back and really see the home. And what I mean 41 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 3: by that is overcoming our house blindness. We all have it, 42 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 3: and it's a natural thing. It's a natural thing simply 43 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 3: because this is the way our brains work the human 44 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:33,239 Speaker 3: brain is. It has a tendency to overlook the most 45 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 3: obvious things because they aren't new, because we get used 46 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 3: to them, like little cracks in the wall, well, little 47 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 3: cracks in the wall, or just even like how the 48 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 3: house is oriented on the property is just one of 49 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 3: those things. 50 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 2: We just take it for granted. 51 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 3: We say, well, there it is, and we don't really 52 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 3: think about what's going on with our home and relationship 53 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 3: to the sun, where windows could be, where they should be, 54 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 3: those kinds of things. And at the end of the day, 55 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 3: the time that I spend staring at people's houses, and 56 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,679 Speaker 3: I kind of have a reputation for this. You ask 57 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 3: any of my clients, they'll tell you, Yeah. There was 58 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 3: that day when Dean came with his camp chair and 59 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,959 Speaker 3: he set it up out front on the sidewalk, and 60 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 3: I got a call from my neighbor saying, Hey, you 61 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 3: realize there's a man on the sidewalk in a chair 62 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 3: staring at your home. I just wanted to let you 63 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 3: know that. You're like, no, that's my designer. It's my designer. 64 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 3: They're like, okay, cause he's just sitting there. He's just 65 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 3: been sitting there for the last hour. 66 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 2: Or two. He's like, yeah, that's my designer. But this 67 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 2: is what I do. I try and. 68 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,119 Speaker 3: Look until I actually see what it is that I'm 69 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 3: looking at. And that may sound kind of ephemeral or 70 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 3: sort of abstract, but it's really not. I was musing 71 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 3: over this with some friends last night. I said, you 72 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 3: know that phrase, it's as plain as the nose on 73 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 3: your face. The interesting thing I find about that phrase 74 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 3: is the last thing that a human being will typically 75 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 3: see is the nose on their face, even though technically 76 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 3: your nose is in view all the time. If you 77 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 3: close one eye and look down there, it is your 78 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 3: nose is actually in your field of vision from both 79 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 3: eyes all the time. But because it's there, and because 80 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 3: it's not interesting, and because nothing's changing about it, your 81 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 3: brain literally clones it out. Your perception of your nose 82 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 3: simply gets masked and it goes away. You don't see 83 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 3: your nose, even though you see your nose. And that's 84 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 3: the kind of thing that every things that we live 85 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 3: with every single day. This is what our brains do. 86 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 3: Our brains are designed to be conscious and aware of 87 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 3: changes in the environment because that's kind of how we've evolved. 88 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,479 Speaker 3: So staring at the most obvious things, not always the 89 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 3: most obvious thing, And that's why we got to take 90 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 3: time look and for instance, like I was saying, the 91 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 3: way our house is oriented on the property. One of 92 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 3: the biggest downsides of a tract home, which is what 93 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 3: most of us live in, is that tract homes were 94 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 3: designed without reference to the property that they're sitting on. 95 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 3: They were designed in a studio somewhere. All four floor 96 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 3: plans of the tract were simply designed in a design 97 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 3: studio and then they were placed on properties. So the 98 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 3: house that you're living in, if there are other houses 99 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 3: like that in your track, some of them are facing north, 100 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 3: some are facing south, some east, some west. Some are 101 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 3: in cul de sacs on wedge shaped properties. Others are 102 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 3: soldiered in next to each other on rectangular properties without 103 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 3: reference to where the sun comes up, where it goes down, 104 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 3: where the best light is. The windows and doors have 105 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 3: not moved, because that's what it is to live in 106 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 3: a tract home. And when we come in and help 107 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 3: attract home owner with that design, first we stare and 108 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 3: we look and we see. The very first question that 109 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 3: I ask is all right, get out of compass. Let's 110 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 3: take a look at where the sun comes up, where 111 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 3: it goes down. Where is the sun at noon? And 112 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 3: people are kind of shrugging their shoulders sometimes saying why 113 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 3: why is this important? I'm like, because your house may 114 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 3: be taking advantage of the sun by accident or maybe 115 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 3: ignoring it, and this may be our big opportunity to 116 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 3: put in some windows and take in some natural light. 117 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 3: Instead of just jumping to the well, we're just going 118 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 3: to redo the kitchen, captains. And that's the difference between 119 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 3: spending money on a remodel, in which at the end 120 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 3: you're like, oh, it's kind of nice, it was a 121 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 3: nice change, or spending the same amount of money and 122 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 3: like wow, Wow, what do you guys do to this house? 123 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 2: Wow? 124 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 3: And so that's what I'm encouraging people to begin thinking. 125 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,919 Speaker 1: I think that that's a great idea. I mean, like 126 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: just you know, sit and stew about it, because you're 127 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: absolutely right about the not seeing things, because I can 128 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: you know, like I'm just thinking about my little apartment 129 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: and I go, oh yeah, oh yeah. Like you just 130 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: you start to gloss over things and just don't pay 131 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: attention to them anymore because they're kind of if they're 132 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 1: an eye store. 133 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 2: And you can't do anything about it. You just kind 134 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 2: of forget about it exactly. 135 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 3: And that's too our a that's not an insult that 136 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 3: our house blindness, that's that's our way of coping. I mean, 137 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 3: we all make do, right, we're very resilient people. And 138 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 3: so nothing is perfect. And your apartment, your house, whatever, whatever, 139 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 3: things are not perfect about it, and you're like, well, listen, 140 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:25,559 Speaker 3: this is not the year I'm going to do anything 141 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 3: about it. So you just start making do. And when 142 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 3: you start making do, you stop seeing it. But when 143 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 3: it comes time to remodel and you've saved up some money, 144 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 3: now is not the time for you to get out 145 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 3: of the way of your house. Now it's time for 146 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 3: your house to get out of your way. And that 147 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 3: takes some actual discipline to see the house fresh and new. 148 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: Wise words from our house whisper. You can hear more 149 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: of his wisdom this weekend six to eight tomorrow on 150 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: KFI and then nine to noon on Sunday, and we're 151 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: going to say happy birthday, and how a wonderful weekend. 152 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, Thank. 153 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 2: You so much. Thanks seem all right, We'll talk to 154 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 2: you soon.